April 4, 2007

ADDED: Some people don't understand vlogging. I think a nice vlog for a blog post makes the blog bloggier, but some people are alarmed by blogginess. It brings out the you-a-law-professor side of a lot of people. Some people want the heavy signs of trustworthiness, like they try to serve up on the network news. If you cut into that with low-tech recording, rough edges, and -- oh, I don't know -- a glass of wine... it can really bend some people out of shape. But what's bloggier than bending people out of shape?

9 comments:

Vlogging indeed brings something new to the table -- and how can they miss it? -- just as blogging does, in that ordinary people (not talking heads) have the chance to express themselves in media with the possibility of drawing an audience, whereas it was only the established big guys before, and viewers were forcefed their choice of content, their formats. The everyday guy is what is new to the table, where it may have been just suits and money before. There are a lot of innovative thinkers out here that have their own voices and needed a platform/audience, and now they have it and the potential to make a name for themselves, through a backdoor. What the indie trend did for music and film, blogs and vlogs are doing for entertainment and news. It's a packaged deal.

For me, a video blog means that I can't load it onto my mp3 player and listen to it in my car during the commute. If I want to listen I have to be in the same place as my computer. I never bother to watch as it's just talking heads.

It's not that there's anything wrong with talking heads as such. It's just that all the useful information is in the audio. The video is just a gimmick. I suppose that the video can be worth the huge bandwidth required but I haven't seen one yet where the video was worth the trouble.